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I’ve been dying to tell you all about this, because, quite frankly, it was awesome. This is the third shower I’ve hosted with this group of ladies, and we are a great team. We’ve sorted out our particular talents so that each of us is doing something we’re good at, and also that we enjoy…it really makes for one heck of a shower when you have such amazing co-hosts. The book theme was really fun and easy to work with, and we were able to coordinate all the food, games, and decor with no trouble at all. My co-host with the Cricut (such an amazing device! I want one!) made the banner above, as well as the tissue paper Hungry Hungry Caterpillar, and the clothesline for the gifts was her idea as well. Another friend (the adorable young man below belongs to her) came up with some children’s book trivia games for us (I didn’t win. I was actually sad about that, but then, I don’t read a lot of children’s books these days…), and our fourth co-host made us some lovely invitations, of which I have no photo…but they were made to coordinate with our banner (above) and you can rest assured, they were adorable. Your truly was responsible for the food, and I can’t even tell you how much fun I had with it. Everything I made was meant to go with one of the books and here’s the list:

Give a Mouse a Cookie – assorted cookies, including Homemade Oreos, Espresso Chocolate Chip Shortbreads, Sugar, and Chocolate Chip (not made by me, but I will be telling you about them, because they have a secret ingredient that is Killer)

We also had Lemon-Berry Punch, which was a Martha Stewart recipe and came out quite well. I’ve already share the meatball recipe with you, and I will be sharing the rest of them over the next week. The carrot cupcake recipe came from (where else?) SmittenKitchen, and I’ll just direct you over to her site for the recipe. As usual with Deb’s recipes, they turned out wonderfully – moist, tender, and tasty. I did pipe wee carrots on top of them, and I was quite proud of how they looked, since I usually have no great gift for decorating. Please do email, or comment, if you have any questions about any of our decor or the theme, etc. We had so much fun being creative with it, but it took a few skype brainstorming sessions and quite a bit of time on Pinterest for us to put all of our ideas to solid plans and then to reality. For now, enjoy some photos of the happy Mama-to-be, and be sure to check back in a day or two for the recipes!